You know what's more annoying than a teenager?
You know what's more annoying than a teenager? New parents, for certain values of new parents; more specifically, an extremely narrowly defined set of new parents. I know this because even the teenager was complaining about them. Here's a hint. Try weaning yourselves down to one picture sent per day. Then try for every other day. Then try for put it in an album and just send the link. Once. Don't get me started on the video clips or or or. Just, don't. When you have a video of the baby chasing a laser pointer up a wall, you can just post that.
I had to hide a friend that was posting a picture (or gif) of their new baby every single day. That is not an exaggeration. The baby was born in April and since then I can count the number of non baby posts she's made on one hand.
ReplyDeleteGOD. If I get knocked up I'm going to be that guy. I'm so sorry. I'd say you should tell me, but hormones... I'd probably yell and/or cry. Sorry in advance.
ReplyDeleteas long as you keep posting pictures of kitties
ReplyDeleteI think I'll never be that person. I'm generally very possessive and selfish of those things. Not sharing my baby with anyone.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes wonder, because I'm not that person, if people think I don't care about my son that much. Then I remember, oh, right, people. Fuck people.
ReplyDeleteBethany Willick I think posting regular photos of your teenage son would be creepy as hell. Babies are sort of all-encompassing but you're SUPPOSED to be able to think about things other than your spawn by this point - and a parent who can't has probably already broken the kid.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I dont think anyone sane would question your devotion to your kid because you don't mention him every ten minutes.
ReplyDelete(And, well, I post enough dog pictures in this easy-to-share era of smartphones and social media to be entirely confident I would inundate the Internets with babby pictures if I made one. Every day they do something EVEN MORE ADORABLE than yesterday OMG. It's kind of hard to remember that the rest of the world gives far fewer shits.)
ReplyDeleteI can never get enough animal pictures though tbh
ReplyDeleteStefanie Fiskaa I kinda doubt it. I just don't see you posting a picture because OMG, look at his/her TONGUE, IT'S SO CUTE about your child. Your cat, maybe. OMG, she/he's SLEEPING. OMG, she/he's AWAKE. CLOTHED. NAKED. staaaahp!
ReplyDeleteBut, you know, if you do, you're probably not going to be offended if someone asks to opt out of the multiple times per day briefings.
BUT LOOK AT THE COLOR OF IT'S POOP, ISN'T IT BEAUTIFUL?
ReplyDeleteYou are beautiful, insightful, and unerringly correct. Now, send me a video of you singing (attempted) a "lullaby" of a military marching cadence and we will have it almost exactly. Edit: it must be unironic in intent.
ReplyDeleteF-L Silver I could do that, I probably won't, but I could.
ReplyDeleteMan. This conversation reminded me I almost took a picture of my cat's poop once. It was the first time it was solid in like a year, so I was so excited.